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HTML

<p class="meta">
     <strong>Author Name</strong>
     –                                <-- remove this
     <time>June 7, 2013</time>
     :                                <-- remove this
</p>

JavaScript

$(function(){
   var $children = $('.meta').children();
   $('.meta').empty().append($children);
});